Reading Lolita in Tehran

"Tehran reading Lolita: memoirs in book" (2003) Narrator Azar Nafisi is a self-centered, self-righteous character, according to her and him and other common others Iranians rarely touched I can not. (11, 74, 186, 169) As "a very American" (page 175), in one case she found himself out of the custom of thinking that others are normal or natural . (Pages 32, 98) Recall, she also admits "[the incident in her heart was confused."

Reading Lolita in Tehran: One of the novels, "reading Lolita in Tehran: memoirs in books" also reflects the life of Narrator Nafisi in Iran after the revolution. A revolutionary dream between Iranians and how she broke. She also indirectly condemned the Islamic regime to lower the age of girls' marriage to nine years, and the Islamic regime held power in 1979.

Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi used her millions of bestselling books "Reading Lolita" to tell the reader about the moral unit and the background of execution. How did she teach her enthusiastic students in Iran about her "Great Gatsby" and other classics? . In this exciting follow-up, Nafis wrote the book that her fans were waiting: a passionate, fascinating and completely original tribute to the vitality of the novel in a democratic society. Tehran's Lolita reads Iran, the imaginative republic is for America

In 2003, the Iranian representative Azar Nafisi announced the memoir "Lolita" on the secret women's reading group in Tehran. In an interview with NPR, Nafisi contrasts the sad and fascinating aspect of the Dolores / Lolita character. She said, "Since her name is not Lolita, her real name is Dolores, because her Latin name means Drol, her real name is related to sorrow, pain, and innocence. Lolita in our novel was also a lolita in our culture Today we just associate it with one aspect of this little girl and her ironic interpretation. " Comment, NPR's interviewer Madeleine Brand lists examples after Lolita, "Long Ray Lolita, Britney Spears, Olsen Twins and Soulion at Lolita in Stanley Kubrick"